Activities For Visually Impaired Children

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Kaeden age 10 was interviewed on the Liz Green show on BBC Radio Leeds as part of the 2016 Children In Need appeal. Listen to Kaeden’s story here. Please help:Tell others by using these social media buttons: by Thankyou

With the Rio 2016 Paralympics now underway. Here is your guide to the paralympic sports that are open to visually impaired competitors. Within each sport there are classification numbers attributed according to the type of disability. We have listed here the sport and the classification codes associated with visual impairment. Please help:Tell […]

A pilot study in Scotland is sending free activity packs to visually impaired children. First Steps is a British Blind Sport initiative aimed at improving the health and fitness of visually impaired children by encouraging participation in fun home physical activities. The free activity pack contains an audible ball, pump, reward […]

Great News! The Outlook Trust is one of 4 Bradford district charities that will receive a grant from Children In Need. As reported in the Bradford Telegraph & Argus on 16th Feb 2016: The Outlook Trust for the Visually Impaired will get £59,400 to fund six outdoor adventure weekends and […]

The summer sailing was yet another successful event. Seven youngsters travelled down to sail the Solent Freya, Lilly, Lydia, Alisha, Richard, Hassan, Luke and James. They were supported by Suzie, Mark, Jeff and Cindy. We set off from Bradford Sunday morning at ten. It made a big difference having three […]

Thirteen young people joined us for our May weekend one of our large groups. However with extra help both accompanying us and from friend at Lakes Leisure everything went well. A big thank you to New volunteers Gerrard and Anna. We faced blustery winds and high waves on Windermere on […]

Our first weekend was a real success enjoyed by all. The RIB was put to good use rescuing a capsized kayak. Despite a very cold lake Suze and Alisha coped well and laughed about it after. Mick had to cope with two flooded open canoes but managed the shore first! […]

This was another successful weekend with lots of firsts. We managed to fill every bed in every room we booked. Eleven people went including six staff. Despite terrible rain on Friday night, it cleared as we started our water activities. We paddled down to Wray Castle in pairs […]

This was another successful weekend. The event again ran full with ten participants . On this occasion accommodation restrictions meant we had to limit numbers. We spent Saturday with Jonny and John our sailing instructors at Lakes Leisure. We rafted four canoes and due to lack of wind practiced rowing […]

Having established that the weather was not going to force us to abandon our plans for this weekend, like it did last year, when we had to cancel the weekend due to heavy snow, we gathered together in Bingley and began to load the bus. Medical forms, medication and consent […]

We know Lily well. She has come on several activity weekends where it’s been wonderful to see her confidence grow She spoke to Chris Evans on radio 2. Listen to the interview here: Lily talks to Chris Evans On Radio 2 Breakfast Show Here is a […]

We started 2013 off with a very successful weeks skiing in La Plagne in France. We brought 4 visually impaired children skiing in conjunction with Disabled Skiers in Action. After only a week 3 were skiing unaided on the blue slopes and the 4th was nearly there. A brilliant time was had by all. Huge […]